Re: Ken Druse on garden tours

In a message dated 7/5/02 12:15:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tangly@pacifier.com writes:

<< souvenirs - 12 of them were gone by the end of the day. Dr. Norman Ames
 Posner said that some people touring his spectacular Columbia County garden
 occasionally snip cuttings, and then have the audacity to bring them to him
 to identify. The rule on this is clear: to steal a cutting is bad manners, >>


Thank you Skyler, the AOL version was clipped short.  Dr. Posner is the man 
who owns the Hudson-Bush farm where Mrs. Greenthumbs appeared each year.  He 
hosted a community sale (buy/sell whatever garden things whatever you liked) 
and she would always be there.  From this area most of went both for the sale 
and see his wonderful garden.  He and a partner made a beautiful garden with 
an old brick house and demonstrated every kind of garden trick you could 
imagine.

His was the only garden where I have seen the British sod to compost method.  
You strip off sod from an area where you want to garden and cut it into 
strips or squares.  Then you pile the sods grass side down in a square pile 
and water it.  You cover it with a tarp and in a year or two you have 
terrific potting soil or container soil or whatever you might need.  
Everywhere you looked something innovative was being done.  There was a great 
watery field of Iris pseudacorus and a walkway from the house to the garden 
lined on both sides in June, at the time of the sale, with Iris pallida four 
feet deep.    The partners decided it was time to stop the event, we all get 
older but he will be remembered for giving local gardeners a wonderful day 
the first Saturday in June each year.

Just a slight disagreement with Druse, who has a very good propagation book 
out - lots of pictures, I don't think gardeners mind giving cuttings if it is 
the corrrect time to take the cutting.  I don't.  

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4 where it was heaven today - no rain - cool temps and breezes to keep 
the bugs away.

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